The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c7.s2.143

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Moreover the Avestan ideas regarding the wind seem to carry in themselves the mark of their antiquity. In spite of the systematic character of the Iranian dualism, a dualism which rigourously divides, on principle, the beings into good ones and bad ones, the wind appears in the Avesta in an equivocal rôle. Now this exception to the dualistic systemisation can be explained as a case of the survival of an older concept, related to those of the Veda concerning the equivocal character of the divinities.